The King Of Fighters XIII Screenshots Have A Bit Of Mai

Fighting fans, we know you’re busy with Super Street Fighter IV, but take a moment out of oil sliding and rising hawk countering to look at the next major fighting game from SNK. There are pictures of Mai…

Yuri and King, also from the ’94 women’s team, are playable characters in The King of Fighters XIII. In other words, SNK is coating the game with a fanservice glaze. Will that be enough to get fans back after The King of Fighters XII?

That King, I don’t mind that King at all. I will pick this up if they gave me Vanessa though. Also, its funny how XII was just a $60 sampler to what was to become XIII. :( (No, it really was not funny at all.)

cowcow

You’re right it’s NOT funny at all

neo_firenze

I dunno, I’m not completely sure I’d call the added females JUST fanservice.

I was playing XII just the other day and it struck me how few female characters there are. Athena and Leona were the only two of the twenty characters in the arcade original (though Mature and Elizabeth were added for the console release). Seemed unusual to me since from KoF’96 on, the series has usually featured quite a few female characters.

So 4 of the 6 newly announced characters being female kinda makes sense to me to balance things up a bit (Vice, Mai, King, Yuri, along with the two new males Takuma and Hwa Jai).

Okay, this is definitely a step in the right direction. Need to see K’ and Kula before I decide to pick this one up, though.

MisterNiwa

I feel you, bro.

Kris

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from SNK’s history, it’s that they like to spend money. However, when they don’t have money to spend, they put out relatively bad KoF games (like XII or Neowave) so they can get money to spend on good games (like XIII [hopefully] or XI). I’ve got a feeling that XIII is going to be good. Also, the addition of the Woman Fighters team implies that we’ll have some good theme music in this game. They always have good themes.

CrimsonFlamesX

Have you been to the official Japanese site? The themes on there are nice. I think they’re clips. But overall, really nice so far.

Chow

Was it my imagination, or didn’t earlier footage/screenshots of this game feature Yuri in mid-thigh high socks that were the color of her signature pants? It seems they changed it back to the original pants, unless I was imagining it all.